Valley girl makes high school football team

CAVE CREEK, Ariz. (KSAZ) - On a quiet afternoon in Cave Creek, a young high school freshman is putting in work on the football field by not only kicking field goals but kicking stereotypes right out the door.

"I've played soccer since I was 4, so it kind of just came second nature to me and that's why I can kick with more my right and my left foot," Karli Koskovich said.

Karli Koskovich may be the only girl among a team of freshmen boys at Cactus Shadows High School, but she's no stranger to football. Her uncle played for years and her dad is a coach at Paradise Valley, so when she decided to try out for the team to be their kicker, her family was all for it.

Convincing her teammates, though, was another challenge.

"Their jaws dropped, they're like, 'Karli, is that you?' and I'm like, 'Yeah, that's me,' and I'm like 'I'm going to be your kicker,' and they're like, 'OK, let me see what you can do,'" she said. "And then I made my first 30-yard field goal and they were like (shocked)."

That's the same look other students have when they see Karl walking around campus with a jersey on.